Golf-club.



I. S. MAOKIE.

GOLF CLUB.

APPLICATION IILBD PEB.5, 1914.

Patented June 2, 1914 Invenor:

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Specification of Let tdrs .l'htht.

. Application mea February a, 19m. Serial in. matte.

To all whom it may comm:

Be it known that l, lsAAo S. MAcKin, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the borough of Richmond, in the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf-Clubs, of which the following is a specification. i

My invention relates particularly to improvements in wooden headed golf clubs, of the kind known as drivers or brassies. A club of this type is used to. drive a golf ball over long" distances. lln order that the club shall satisfactorily perform its function and drive the ball with accuracy the shaft thereof should be resilient close to the head, and the head should be firmly and rigidly united to the .shaft in such a manner as to prevent. it from twisting.

lflleretofore clubs have been constructed with shafts of hickory or other suitable resilient wood which are tapered at the portion adjacent to the head and joined thereto by inserting and gluing the lower end of the shaft into a. socket formed in the head. While a. club thus made complies with the first of theabovc-named conditions, it is dc ticient in that it does not satisfy the second. When such a club is driven against the ball with considerable force, as is necessary in making a long drive, the head thereof will tend to twist r turn around the shaft, par ticularly if the hall is struck by the toe or forward part of the head, and thus cause the hall to slice or travel at a tangent to the direct line of aim. Attempts have been made to remedy this defect by fastening the head directly to the shaft by means of a scarf or spliced joint. As, however, the head is generally made of a stiff and nonresilientwood, such a joint will diminish the resiliency of the combined structure and while the club will permit of accurate placing or driving of the ball, it will not permit of drives of as great a length as with a club having greater resiliency.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a club having a shaft composed of two pieces which is resilient at the portion adjacent to the head and having the head firmly and rigidly united to the shaft so as to enable the player to combine dis tance with accuracy of drive.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, l igure 1 is a longitudinal section through the head and lower part of v the shaft of a club embodying my invention. Fig. 2 1s a cross section taken on the line rear view of a club, with the winding removed, showing the joint between the shaft and the head.

Referring to the preferred embodiment of the head of a club having an elongated neck port on 2 and provided with a socket 3, extending through the neck and into the head. The upper rear portion of the wall of the in Fig. 1.

The shaft is composed of two pieces of hickory or other suitable strong and flexible wood shaped in the usual manner so as to have resiliency along the portion thereof adjacent to the head. Said shaft consists of a main stick 5 having its lower end beveled-crosswise and tapered longitudinally and united, in the form of a scarf or spliced joint 7, to the beveled upper end of the piece 6, the lower extremity ofwhich fits snugly into the socket 3 of the head.

The tip or lower extremity of the piece 5 extends beyond the joint 7 and overlaps the beveled portion 4 of the rear wall of the neck 2, as best seen in Fig. 3, so as to provi do a structure whereby the head is firmly held in a manner to prevent it from twisting .or turning around the longitudinal axis of the shaft. upon impact against the ball.

The several parts are cemented together with glue or other suitable adhesive materi a1 and are bound or reinforced by means of a cord or tape winding 8 covering the parts.

lly means of the construction herein described, I provide a golf club which has sufficient resiliency to enable it to be used for making, a long drive and in which the head is firmly held so as to secure accuracy of drive.

While I prefer to secure the head to the shaft by gluing); the extremity of the shaft into a socket formed in the head, as shown herein, any other suitable manner of unitingr said parts may be employed.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

sisting of two joined pieces of wood, a head secured to one of said pieces and having the lower extremity of theothcr piece overlapping a portion of the head.

a-a of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 isa fragmentary neck is beveled slightly inwardly as at 4,

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my invention shown in the drawings, 1 is 1. A golf club comprising" a shaft. eon- I 2. A. golf club comprising a shaft having with the extended tip thereof hearing a piece of wood spliced be the lower end against the upper rear ortion of the head. thereoi a, wooden head fastened to the In testimony whereo i 1 have signed'my spliced piece and having the lower extrem-' name to this specification, in the-presence of 5 ity oi the lsjhafitgverlappirig the hfiag. two subscribing Witnesses.

'3. go" 011 compnslng a. s a t bon- I sisting of two pieces of wood united in a. ISAAG MAGKIE' scarf joint and having the tip of one of said Witnesses: pieces extending beyond the joint, 2. wooden Lesme 1B. DITTENHOEFER,

19 head secured to the lower end of the shaft WILLIAM Cmmme. 

